Get More: Eminem, Music News   Chances are you’ve never heard of Jon Bellion, but that’s OK, because both Eminem and Rihanna know him quite well. A quick YouTube search of the 22-year old singer/songwriter will turn up a collection of hopeful pop pieces like “Ungrateful Eyes” and “One More Time,” but diehards will have…

Since 1999, guitarist Billy Howerdel has been one half of the creative force behind A Perfect Circle, along with Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan. He’s also the head honcho of Ashes Divide, an alt-prog band that has a single album to their credit, 2008’s Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright. Over the next few months, fans of both…

A lot of us will be buying the new Mac Pro in December when it’s released to replace some of the older Mac desktops that our studios now run. I thought that you’d like to see how the new machines are being made in plants in California, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee Georgia and North and South…

Low-Gain Electronics has announced that it is offering a ‘build commission service’ for the Two Thousand Six Hundred (ARP 2600 clone) project. The Two Thousand Six Hundred is a diy 2600 clone. Low-Gain is offering fully assembled clones, in two options: One is the desktop case shown above. The other is a portable suit case…

By now you’ve heard the reports that YouTube is preparing its own music streaming service, and although the company hasn’t officially confirmed it, accounts of numerous recent private showings of the service have seemingly appeared everywhere. On the surface you can look at the prospect of a YouTube music streaming service and ask why it’s…

Keane have achieved what many say is impossible in the modern music industry: over the course of 10 years, they’ve stayed on the same major label with the same manager, and never released an album that hasn’t been an Official UK No.1. What’s their secret? Keane’s career isn’t just an example of how you can…

Nipsey Hussle stopped by the Breakfast Club this morning. He spoke on selling his Crenshaw tape $100 a pop, Jay Z’s purchase, upcoming projects, his ideal signing to a major and more. Physical and digital copies of Crenshaw is available here….

The Ontario Music Fund (OMF), a $45 million government grant program approved by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Sport and administered by the brand new Ontario Music Office (OMO) over the next three years, is now up and running. The four grant programs, deadlines and funding criteria have been posted under the music section…

It might seem crazy for YouTube to launch a music subscription somewhat along the lines of MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Spotify, because you can already play just about any song in the world on YouTube, for free, in seconds — even music from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and other artists who refuse to put their music on…

DJ Quik remains one of West Coast rap’s great neglected heroes: continually inventive, typically unsung, and, with over two decades of studio releases under his belt, well-travelled.  Compton-raised, Quik properly arrived with 1990′s groovy, self-produced gangsta rap cornerstone Quik Is The Name. Subsequent releases saw him spread his wings as a producer, refining a psychedelic, velvet-lined…